Employment & professions
Künstlersozialkasse
Artists' social insurance fund
Self-employed artists, writers and musicians pay only the employee half of health and pension contributions; the rest comes from the businesses that commission them. Unique in Europe, and easy to miss for years.
What it does
- Social insurance for creatives
No counterpart recorded for France yet
We hold this body, but nothing has been verified as its equivalent in the other country. Ask for it and an editor will look.